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It’s Here! The Art of the Break is available at https://uwpress.wisc.edu/books/6012.htm
Read this review from Forward Reviews about The Art of the Break, my new novel. https://www.forewordreviews.com/reviews/the-art-of-the-break/
The Art of the Break
It’s almost here! My new novel published by the University of Wisconsin Press will be available on October 4, 2022 and can be preordered at https://uwpress.wisc.edu/catalogs/fall22.html
The Art of the Break
I’m thrilled to reveal the cover of my new novel, The Art of the Break. The title refers to an important step in cheesemaking. A clean break is called when the heated milk mixture attains just the right consistency. The cheesemaker places the back of her/his fingers in the coagulated milk and lifts. If the…
John Prine’s Songs about Forgiveness and Hope
Hey John Prine, we’re sure going to miss you. We could use your gentle take on things with this wretched disease infecting us—the loved, the old, the vulnerable, the poor, the essential, the unlucky, the poets like you. It’s a hard time, many of us are sick and turns out COVID-19 unleased a whole world…

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Hi, I’m Mary, a Wisconsin-based writer, educator, and school psychologist.
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Books and essays

Reaching Shore
A novel
Award winning historical novel
for young adults.

School Refusal and Truancy
Non-fiction
Evidence-based practices for
school refusal and truancy

Mary’s Essays
Short stories and essays